Power & Financial Struggle

Despite running head-to-head with President Obama's State of the Union speech and a talk on campus by Native American writer Leslie Marmon Silko, our Jan. 27 panel discussion on energy, activism and the role of the media on the Navajo and Hopi Nations drew more than 100 Tucsonians. "Power Struggle," co-hosted by the University of Arizona School of Journalism, focused on coal mining on Black Mesa and the prospects for green alternatives, including wind and solar power, but it ranged broadly across issues of tribal sovereignty and identity.  Full story at: http://www.hcn.org/hcn/issues/42.4/power-and-financial-struggle